GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4888, 21 November 1876, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The Worcester Journal states that Dr. Gully has left England for Franco. The Army Service Corps is for the first time to be strengthened by recruiting. It is announced that Boston is to have a Sunday newspaper edited exclusively by ladies. Three railway servants in Lancashire have been heavily fined for being drunk while in charge of a ballast train. At the Stockton Police Court lately, several tradesmen were fined small sums for selling adulterated oatmeal.

Of 130 persons booked at the Liverpool bridewells between a Saturday evening and Monday morning, 126 were drunk. The Empress Eugenie has just left Arenonburg and paid a visit to,the Grand Duchess of Baden, daughter of the Emperor of Germany. A little girl, eight years of age, has been killed at Blaeoavon by eating a poisonous fungus, which she, mistook for a mushroom. Grain is being exported from America to Europe very heavily. The Liverpool steamers took out over 250,000 bushels from New York one week in August.

Ogle'B. Go wan, the founder and sovereign of Canadian Orangeism, has died at Toronto. Before going to America he held high office in the order in Ireland. The Globe is authorised to state that there is ho foundation for the rumor that Lord Odo Russell will shortly replace Sir Henry Elliot as British Ambassador at Constantinople. The death is announced of M. Michel Engalbert, the oldest living French organist. He died at the age of ninety-six. He played the organ at Notre Daine at the coronation of Napoleon I. A Harrisburgh alderman lately fined 38 of the employes of the Pennsylvania Railway Company four dollars each and costs for working oh Sunday. The judgment was given under the Act of 1794. During the past ten yeara the screw has entirely repk ccd the paddle in Transatlantic navigation, the weight of marine engines has diminished one-half, the steam pressure has quadrupled, and the consumption of coal has decreased two-thirds.

At the County Sessions Room, Bolton, Mr. Thomas Smith, manager for Messrs. Fletcher, Little Lever, colliery proprietors, was fined £lO and costa for allowing a workman to continue to get coal without sufficient propping and spragging. By the recent Act on Trade Unions (39 and 40 of the Queen, c. 22) trade unions, whether registered or not, which insure or pay money on the death of a child under 10 years of age, are brought within the provisions of section 28 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875. M. Victor Schoelcher, the French Senator, has arrived at his residence in London. He has lately made some valuable additions to his remarkable: collection of engravings, which now numbers twelve thousand specimens. The introduction of the Independent Order of Good Templars into England is to be celebrated in London next Friday,, at the Bedford Institute, Spitalfields. The May returns from the lodges have been made up, and show a net increase of about 10,000 'members during the previous quarter :in the English jurisdiction. .

There has been almost a complete cessation of building operation at the New National Opera House at the Thames Embankment. It is stated that there is a probability of the works being resumed in the course of some twoorthreeweeks, but it is now very improbable that the building can be completed and ready for opening by the time originally, fixed. It is a serious confession of weakness to seek a nominal safety in a reduction of speed. The daily records of our great lines prove that maximum velocities can be maintained over a good road with perfect safety, and that on ; a bad road danger is continually incurred. The duty ,of those who would influence public opinion lies not in the acceptance of low speeds and their inevitable consequences—bad roads—but in urging railway companies to permit those who serve them to maintain roads, engines, and carriages in that high state of efficiency which is so dear to the hearts of English railway engineers.